Anne Kostick

About Anne Kostick

Anne has been a partner in Foxpath IND since 2000, specializing in the transition to and from traditional content publishing and online content development, management, and publishing. Her clients include trade book publishers; technology and financial services Web sites; and arts and cultural institutions. Anne’s semimonthly column, Digital Reading, discusses user experience and related topics in ebooks and digital reading. Anne is emerita president of Women’s Media Group, an industry organization, Chief Judge of the Publishing Innovation Awards and a member of BEA Conference Advisory Board for 2013. She is the author of several books for children and a definitive collection of jokes.

Digital Reading: Talking About Tablets

Not long ago I got together online with Bret Freeman, Brett Sandusky, and Tony O’Donoghue to discuss the new tablet reality and how book publishers should take advantage of this fall’s surge in new tablet computers. We already know that …

Digital Reading: Getting Agile About Books

Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a webcast titled “Agile Content Development for Book Publishers.” We had less than an hour to explain, demonstrate and sometimes defend the agile methodology in its use for books. We certainly didn’t …

Digital Reading: Renaming the (Digital) Book

Speaking of user experience—we haven’t yet discovered the word that will describe the digital, transmutable, readable, platform-agnostic, weightless, immersive, elastic … creation, hitherto known as a book. We should hurry up and get this naming process started. Why should we …